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Posts Tagged ‘configuration’

I use dual monitors on my portable workstation and at home and have for about 2-3 years. My current work configuration made me have to switch my secondary monitor to the left of my computer, I looked around and couldn’t find anything in Windows Vista’s setup to tell it the physical locale or switch it manually, so, I got used to moving my mouse to the right to access my monitor on the left! I conditioned myself at a particular computer to do the opposite motion of the other.

Yesterday, I received notification of a Windows Vista update that would fix this and allow me to go under my display settings, select and drag any extra monitor to the left or to the right of my primary monitor to customize my own configuration!

I did, then after two hours, I put it back, it was crazy, I couldn’t consciously program my arm and hand to move to the left instead of the right cause of my mechanical memory!

I have several friends in the IS/IT field one told me that’s the problem with work-arounds in his profession, when you can finally fix it, it’s hard to do the “correct” motion.

I was thinking further about this, psychologically…

Food for thought…

What if we mis-learn how to do things in life, along the lines of teaching “old dogs new tricks” and when the time comes to readjust from bad training, is it impossible or really difficult to re-train ourselves or like kicking a bad habit.

I’ll wrap up with this:

Easier said than done.